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Originally posted by Glinda
reply to post by wcitizen
I disagree.
We are divided...NOT by race. That concept is so easy to foist upon the populace. The divide is producers (taxpayers) vs. those (who 'take'--and have been raised with the thought they are 'entitled' to take...a welfare babymama or a tax, tax, tax pol. Same difference.)
Originally posted by skepticconwatcher
reply to post by Cuervo
Ummm, the majority of the US Army are....BLACK...
Originally posted by summerbreeze.ddp
Originally posted by kozmo
reply to post by summerbreeze.ddp
Oh goody! You found an example of white racism. Racism exists everywhere, in every race, on every continent. What is the point of this one story?
Oh wait!!! I get it now. Those black teens were running around beating white people so that this girl could be valedictorian! It all makes so much sense now. It is completely justified.
I found an (one) example? I could fill up pages of it but that is not the point. I was responding to the poster that said stay in school and get educated. We try but be still cannot get a fair shake. Kymberly had the highest GPA in her school but she had to share the honor with a lower scoring white person. The school system never had split honors before-just when the valedictorian was black. How do you explain it? Violence is never justified. But think how your would feel if no matter how hard you tried, you still got kicked in the teeth.
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by summerbreeze.ddp
Maybe because they did not grow up in a world that is fair and just, maybe because they are a suspect just for walking into a store, maybe because they have less chance of success than their white counterparts, maybe because they are tired of being racially profiled,
Then maybe they should stop randomly attacking white people.
Maybe they should concentrate on getting an education, and staying out of trouble so they have a chance at a decent future.
Maybe they should stop idolizing gang culture.
They should definitely stop listening to the people who claim that being black is a handicap in the U.S..
They should start believing in themselves, and their abilities to succeed in the U.S.. If you can't make it in the U.S., you can't make it anywhere.
The people who put out these garbage lame excuses need to stop spreading such lies. You people are the heart of the problem.
I mean, they have to be pretty dang organized. Or someone is doing something to make sure they are organized without them even realizing they are being used as tools somehow.
Originally posted by summerbreeze.ddp
I never beat up a white person, I am college educated, I do not think gansta rappers are heroes, I have never been in jail. I just get fed up listening to people saying that the reasons that black people face so many hardships is their own fault. I agree some of it is, some of it is not, Some racism is this country is institutional and deliberate and ongoing. Anyone with eyes has to admit this. Most black people are just as hardworking as any other race, just as driven to succeed and want as much as any other race for our children to succeed, be educated and to be happy. It bothers us just as much as anyone else to hear stories like this.
Originally posted by kozmo
Originally posted by summerbreeze.ddp
Originally posted by kozmo
reply to post by summerbreeze.ddp
Oh goody! You found an example of white racism. Racism exists everywhere, in every race, on every continent. What is the point of this one story?
Oh wait!!! I get it now. Those black teens were running around beating white people so that this girl could be valedictorian! It all makes so much sense now. It is completely justified.
I found an (one) example? I could fill up pages of it but that is not the point. I was responding to the poster that said stay in school and get educated. We try but be still cannot get a fair shake. Kymberly had the highest GPA in her school but she had to share the honor with a lower scoring white person. The school system never had split honors before-just when the valedictorian was black. How do you explain it? Violence is never justified. But think how your would feel if no matter how hard you tried, you still got kicked in the teeth.
See, here is the problem... "We try but we still cannot get a fair shake." What does that mean? The world is not fair. No one is entitled to fairness. I'm white and I'm not treated fairly. I had to pay my way through college and you want to know something? Because I was a white male, I wasn't eligible for most of the government programs that are available to minorities - is that fair?
And you know what else? I work my ass off every single day and STILL get kicked in the teeth every single day. It's not fair. But "fairness" doesn't exist anywhere in the world.
Why do you think a bunch of old white dudes created the gangster hiphop culture to begin with? It certainly wasn't to garner respect for black youth.
Global innovationsThough created in the United States by African-Americans (some with Jamaican heritage), hip hop culture and music is now global in scope. The Middle East, Africa, Canada, France, Germany, the U.K., Australia, the Netherlands, and the Caribbean have long-established hip hop followings. According to the U.S. Department of State, hip hop is "now the center of a mega music and fashion industry around the world," that crosses social barriers and cuts across racial lines.[35] National Geographic recognizes hip hop as "the world's favorite youth culture" in which "just about every country on the planet seems to have developed its own local rap scene."[36] Through its international travels, hip hop is now considered a “global musical epidemic,”[37] and has diverged from its ethnic roots by way of globalization and localization.
Jamaican born DJ Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell is credited as being highly influential in the pioneering stage of hip hop music,[13] in the Bronx, after moving to New York at the age of thirteen. Herc created the blueprint for hip hop music and culture by building upon the Jamaican tradition of toasting—impromptu, boastful poetry and speech over music—which he witnessed as a youth in Jamaica.
Herc and other DJs would tap into the power lines to connect their equipment and perform at venues such as public basketball courts and at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, New York, a historic building "where hip hop was born".[15] Their equipment was composed of numerous speakers, turntables, and one or more microphones.[16] By using this technique DJs could create a variety of music. According to Rap Attack by David Toop “At its worst the technique could turn the night into one endless and inevitably boring song” (12).[17] In late 1979, Debbie Harry of Blondie took Nile Rodgers of Chic to such an event, as the main backing track used was the break from Chic's "Good Times".[18]]
Originally posted by 2012srb
reply to post by summerbreeze.ddp
If this behavior bothers decent blacks then why don't they do anything about it?
Why do they encourage that rap crap and the ghetto clothing?
I don't buy that it bothers black adults.
If it did they would address the problem.